"Writers are entirely egocentric. To them, few things in their lives have meaning or importance unless they give promise of serving some creative purpose."

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Source : Doris Grumbach (2014). “Fifty Days of Solitude: A Memoir”, p.39, Open Road Media

Doris Grumbach

#Giving Quotes #Creative Quotes #Promise Quotes

“For the serious artist does not satisfy needs”
“There are a lot of reasons to be hated in pop culture, and being a straight white male is one of them. In fact, I almost hate me”

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“Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons living drab lives, observed by drab minds and reported in drab writing ...”
“I loved doing the 'King of Queens', I have never had so much fun doing a show. People got to see a different side of me.”
“You cannot avoid making judgements but you can become more conscious of the way in which you make them. This is critically important because once we judge someone or something we tend to stop thinking about them or it.”
“Associative indexing, the basic idea of which is a provision whereby any item may be caused at will to select immediately and automatically another. This is the essential feature of the Memex. The process of tying two items together is the important thing.”

Source : Vannevar Bush (1946). “Endless horizons”
“Sometimes I'll have sections that I'm not quite sure how they fit in the puzzle of a tune, they'll get moved around; what I think was originally a verse ends up becoming the chorus, or what's an intro gets dropped as a hook, things get shifted around a lot.”

Source : "Gotye Braces For Stateside Success With 'Somebody That I Used To Know'". Interview with James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. February 9, 2012.
“I bet they didn't tell you that was in the gift bag.”

Source : Oscar Award for Best Leading Actor Acceptance Address, Delivered 23 March 2003, Kodak Theater, Hollywood, California

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